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Support for Iraq policy dives after Katrina
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-09-22 06:54

WASHINGTON - U.S. public support for President George W. Bush's Iraq policy has nosedived in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but this seems unlikely to force the administration to change tack, political analysts said on Wednesday. Reuters reported.

President George W. Bush is shown around at the back-in-operation Folgers Coffee Plant by operations manager Bart Blackstone (R) in New Orleans September 20, 2005.
President George W. Bush is shown around at the back-in-operation Folgers Coffee Plant by operations manager Bart Blackstone (R) in New Orleans September 20, 2005. [Reuters]
"Katrina has changed many things but I don't think it will change Iraq policy. There is almost no elasticity in that policy," said Danielle Pletka of the conservative American Enterprise Institute, an acknowledged supporter both of Bush and his Iraq policy.

Political scientist Cal Jillson of Southern Methodist University agreed. "There's no way back for Bush on Iraq. He can't run away from that policy. He has to secure something he can plausibly point to as success."

Public support for the president on Iraq had been gradually eroding in the past year as the U.S. military death toll mounted toward 2,000 and little progress was made in stopping a bloody insurgency that began soon after the 2003 invasion.

But backing for his policy, that U.S. troops would stay until Iraqis can establish a government and army that can govern and defend itself, has dropped dramatically since Katrina devastated Louisiana and Mississippi.
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